I still have a lot of tweaking to do, but the hard part is done, and I hope you'll now find this site easier to navigate and more enjoyable to visit. It may even load a little faster, too. I owe a big thanks to my helpful and extremely patient friends, Kalyn and Karina, who write the super popular food blogs, Kalyn's Kitchen and Gluten-Free Goddess. I couldn't have done this without them, and I'm sure they'll be thrilled to know the barrage of 'just one more question' e-mail messages is going to be slowing way down.

As always, your feedback—both positive and negative—is greatly appreciated, so if something looks wonky, doesn't seem to be working right, or you have any questions or suggestions about the new design, I do hope you'll let me know. If you can't find something, the Google search box is still located in the upper right corner, and it will search on just Farmgirl Fare and In My Kitchen Garden for whatever you're looking for.

Thank you all so much for your wonderful support over the past 5½ years. I wouldn't be here without you!

Sunday update: Okay, it looks like the spaces between paragraphs disappeared on a lot of older posts when I switched to the new template (and went from Classic Blogger to Layouts). Also, the 'small' size text I used to use for posts has turned into extra small, which is really teeny. I'm working my way through the archives fixing things (and doing the recipes first), but it's going to take a while. Thanks for your patience.

35 comments:

I agree! Even though I read you via my RSS feeder (btw thank you for letting RSS readers pull your whole post with photos, greatly appreciated!) I like to read a post on the original site from time to time. This looks absolutely wonderful!!

Just dropping by to say I love your blog. Your farm life is so interesting to read about, I love the photos and the recipes of yours I have tried have just been splendid! I now have an amazing interest and love for donkeys I never thought possible. Thank you,Karen in Iceland.(I don't think there are any donkeys here!)

Everything seems so smooth and clean! And a food index!! That is the best news of all! I've especially been promising myself to bake some of the pitas from your pita bread recipe, and now I can find them faster! ... though, flipping through all those years of posts and reliving the past is pretty fun too.

Susan, I LOVE the new look... I'm hoping to take my own blog over soon. It's much easier to navigate, and the pictures still look great. I can't wait to see the Daily Donkey pics! Good job, and well worth the work! It's one I never miss daily!

I love, love, love the new look of your blog. the recipe index is great and I like how fast it the pages load now. Woo Hoo for you!!! great blog! :DP.S. Some day I will have to put the donkey stories about when I was a child on my blog. I absolutely LOVE donkeys and your beautiful donkeys are what drew me to your blog in the first place.

I love it! Thanks so much for this & all the work you've done & do. Like other posters, I love the pix & the recipes...I can't explore as frequently as I would like, but I love your blog & look forward to my time here. And I'm posting as anonymous because I can't remember my id for your blog (good grief)! I'll find it! Terry

The site looks great. You have about as much snow as we do in eastern Ontario, Canada. The temperature at the moment is -24 degrees Celsius. You can always judge the temperature by looking out at the garage light. The energy-efficient emits a very orangish light in very cold temperatures and a whitish light at normal temperatures.

January 2013 update: I know word verification is a big pain, but it's the only way I can stop the ridiculous number of anonymous spam comments I get every day. I don't want to require commenters to be registered Blogger or Open ID users because I know many of you aren't. Thanks so much for your understanding!

Hi! Thanks for visiting Farmgirl Fare and taking the time to write. While I'm not always able to reply to every comment, I receive and enjoy reading them all.

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